Quotes:Wilson, Horace Hayman

Zirkoff, Boris

Wilson, Horace Hayman. English physician and Orientalist, b. in London, Sept. 26, 1786; d. May 8, 1860. Educated in his native city; trained in St. Thomas’ Hospital and went to Calcutta, 1808, in the medical service of the East India Co., where he was attached to the Mint. Became an ardent student of Sanskrit. Was Secretary to the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, 1811-33; assay-master of Calcutta Mint, 1816-32; Secretary to the Committee of Public Institutions. While in India, started his vast program of translations from the Sanskrit with Kalidasa’s Meghaduta, 1813. Upon returning to England in 1832, became Boden Prof, of Sanskrit at Oxford, 1833, Librarian of India House, 1836, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1837-60. Wilson was the greatest Sanskrit scholar of his time, besides being a linguist, historian, chemist, numismatist, actor, musician and accountant—a man of immense learning and untiring energy. Besides translating the Rigveda (q.v.), he produced a Sanskrit-English Dictionary, a work on the Theatre of the Hindus, a Sanskrit Grammar and a complete translation of the Vishnu-Purana (edited by Fitzedward Hall. London: Triibner & Co., 186470) which has been greatly used by H.P.B. in her works. He is also the author of *Essays and Lectures chiefly on the Religion of the Hindus (Coll, and ed. by Dr. Reinhold Rost). London, 1862. 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 549

Wilson, Horace Hayman (1786-1860). *A Dictionary, Sanskrit and English. Calcutta, 1819. 4to; 2nd enl. ed., 1832; 3rd ed., enL from 2nd, Berlin, 1856. — *Rig-Veda Sanhitä, a Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns. Trans, from Sanskrit. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1850. 4 vols. — *Essays and Lectures chiefly on the religion of the Hindus. Coll, and ed. by Dr. Reinhold Rost. London: Trübner and Co., 1862. 2 vols.; also in Vols. 1 and 2 of Works, 1862-71.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 384

Wilson, Horace Hayman (1786–1860). *Vishnu-Purāṇa. Tr. by H. H. Wilson. Ed. by Fitzedward Hall. London: Trübner & Co., 1864, 65, 66, 68, 70. Works of the late H. H. Wilson.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 458